Presto is a simple vegan & vegetarian recipe search engine created using React. It is powered by the free Edamam Recipe API.

I made this web app to get experience in using React technology. I spent a lot of time reading and learning about the best practices to follow, so I hope I did well!

I used react-autosuggest to create a typeahead suggestion box for recipe ideas. This recipe data comes from suggestions.json. You can get suggestions by searching with either recipe name, cuisine, or category (dip, dessert, breakfast, etc.).

Additionally, I added a feature where the user can see the ingredients for a specific recipe and check off the ones they have. Then, the app will try to find substitutes (with the data it has) for the unchecked items. It does this by removing the "stop words" (stopwords.json) and punctuation from each ingredient and comparing it with the ingredients in the substitutions data. Of course, this method has its defects. The ingredients data for a recipe can have extra information like specific brands (ex. "1 cup King Arthur flour") or preparation techniques (ex. "1 clove garlic finely minced"). I tried my best to add as many stop words to stopwords.json as I could to avoid missing substitutes.

The Edamam API also returns health details for each recipe, so I used react-chartjs-2 to create a chart to depict that information.

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